Location: Paraty, Brazil
Project: August 2006
Completion: May 2009
Site area: 50.000 sqm
Built area: 840 sqm
Essential credits:
Architecture: Studio mk27
Architect: Marcio Kogan
Co-architect: Suzana Glogowski
Interiors: Diana Radomysler
Project team: Carolina Castroviejo, Lair Reis, Mariana Simas
Tel: 55 11 30813522
Address: Al. Tietê, 505 São Paulo sp Brazil 01417-020
Site: www.studiomk27.com
Photographer: Nelson Kon
Tel: 55 11 32314868
Email: nk@nelsonkon.com.br
Lighting: Gilberto Franco
Landscape architect: Gil Fialho
General Contractor: Lock Engenharia
Arq. Andressa Donadio
Eng. Romolo Germano
Structure Engineer: sf Engenharia
Eng. Otávio de Souza Gomes
In the backyard is a tree that stands out in the middle of the concrete pavement.
In the afternoon, the light-colored pallet of the house gives off a cool atmosphere.
The house is lit with beautiful lamps that create a dramatic effect.
The house has a cantilever facing the beach, and a staircase enclosed with glasses leads to the upper floor.
The entrance has a metallic bridge positioned over a crystal-lined reflecting pool.
The open living room overlooks the beach, and the wooden furniture blends well with the concrete wall.
The open dining room has a wooden table and chairs, and the glass walls allow air to enter for ventilation.
The house has a kitchen island and access to a small enclosed space for an outdoor dining area.
The concrete floating staircase leads to the upper floor. The walls are made of beach rock and lit up using floor lights.
The retractile panels of eucalyptus sticks protect the bedrooms from the sun.
The bedroom cantilever faces the beach, and the eucalyptus sticks protect the bedrooms from the sun.
Outdoor is a deck with a pool facing the beach.
Beach rocks are used as the walls of the pool, and there are sun loungers on the deck for relaxation.
At night, the pool is illuminated by outdoor lighting, creating a beautiful landscape.
The house features a roof garden facing the ocean.
View of the house and the mountain.
The house has a ceiling made of wood and a concrete floor beside a small lawn.
The house features an infinity pool that showcases the beauty of the ocean, perfect for relaxation.
View of the house from the waters.
House location plan.
Floor plan for the ground floor of the house.
Floor plan for the first floor of the house.
Floor plan for the second floor of the house.
Floor plan for the third floor of the house.
Cross section bb of the house.
Cross section aa of the house.
There is a legend which says that the region of the colonial city of Paraty and Angra dos Reis (between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro) has 365 islands, one for each day of the year. Two boxes of reinforced concrete, rest fixed connected on the mountainside of one of these islands; two modern prisms between the large colossal stones of the Brazilian coast.
The volumes project outward from the mountain, almost abreast of the beach, in a 8-meters cantilever. The house, of structural ingenuity, finds balance in the topography of the land, constituting an extensive open doorway and living space in the practically-untouched nature.
In the rocks of Paraty, in the dense rain forest of the island, poisonous spiders, discover this orthogonal volume and penetrate the grass that coats the slab. Moving their fore and hind legs quickly, they reclaim the site.
The spiders continue on their way into the house and penetrate into an important furniture collection of the XX century designed, among others, by George Nakashima, Luis Barragan, Lina Bo Bardi, Sérgio Rodrigues, Joaquim Tenreiro and José Zanine Caldas. The spiders become lost in the upholstered chair.
The inhabitants arrive by boat: the entrance to the house, already protected by the slab, after stepping on the sand, is via a metallic bridge positioned over a crystal-lined reflecting pool. The bridge leads to stairs connecting to the lower volume. This volume contains part of the program of the house: living room, kitchen and service area. The continual internal area has a 27-meter span and huge glass windows allow for the view, the sea.
The same entrance stairs lead to the upper volume which lodges the bedrooms. In the front part of the house, retractile panels of eucalyptus sticks protect the bedrooms from the sun. The spaces that face the mountain, have small internal patios with zenital lighting and the use of exposed reinforced concrete grants a striking texture to the walls.
The entire top of the house is covered with terraces, observatories for the inhabitants, for the poisonous spiders, or garden for the sculptures and for the medicinal plants and edible herbs.